5 March CFR Call

from Irina Faskianos via Cory Leonard:

On behalf of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), I invite you and your students to participate in the next session of the Winter/Spring 2009 CFR Academic Conference Call series on Thursday, March 5, 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. (ET). Roger M. Kubarych, CFR's Henry Kaufman adjunct senior fellow for international economics and finance, will lead the discussion on "The Global Economic Crisis." For the complete schedule of upcoming Academic Conference Calls, please visit http://www.cfr.org/educators/newsletter_detail.html?id=1275.

In addition to his position at CFR, Mr. Kubarych is chief U.S. economist at UniCredit Global Research, which is part of UniCredit Markets and Investment Banking, and is a senior economic adviser for HVB Americas Inc. He was senior vice president and chief economist of the New York Stock Exchange and served for thirteen years at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in a variety of positions. In addition, Mr. Kubarych was special assistant to the U.S. Department of the Treasury undersecretary for monetary affairs, and served on the economic intelligence advisory panel to the director of the Central Intelligence Agency. He has written numerous papers, books, and articles on economic and financial topics and writes a regular column for Japan's Nikkei newspaper.

As background for the discussion, you may wish to review the following materials:

1) "The U.S. Economic Stimulus Plan," Backgrounder, CFR.org, February 18, 2009 (Updated); http://www.cfr.org/publication/18348

2) Roger M. Kubarych, "Testing Time for a Young Administration," Nikkei Financial Daily, February 12, 2009;http://www.cfr.org/publication/18584/testing_time_for_a_young_administration.html (The full text of this article will be included with the dial-in instructions.)

3) "Fact Sheet: Financial Stability Plan," FinancialStability.gov, February 10, 2009; http://financialstability.gov/docs/fact-sheet.pdf

4) "A New Information Infrastructure for Financial Markets," Working Paper, Squam Lake Working Group on Financial Regulation, February 2009;http://www.cfr.org/publication/18568/new_information_infrastructure_for_financial_markets.html

5) "Timeline: Global Economy in Crisis," Interactive, CFR.org, January 26, 2009 (Updated); http://www.cfr.org/publication/18372

6) Simon Johnson, "The Economic Crisis and the Crisis in Economics," Revised Version of Speech Prepared for Presidental Address to the Association for Comparative Economics (San Francisco, January 4, 2009), Peterson Institute for International Economics, January 7, 2009. http://www.iie.com/publications/papers/paper.cfm?ResearchID=1090